Endorsed "My neighbur South hath performed all according to the direction wythin writen in the presence of us appointed to heare the same. By me Ffrancis Garthsyd rector, Wawrence Disborow and Thomas Brydg, churchwardens, Robert Gawlet and Rychard Cutle, questmen."
Probably written, signed and addressed "To my lovinge frend Mr. Garthside at his parsonage of Boroughegrene give these," and endorsed in Boroughegrene, a village in the Diocese of Ely.
With trace of a seal.
Borrowgreene is possibly Borough Green, in Kent.
This document appears to be a citation announcing the sentence of the Consistory Court.--Cf. Hall, p. 264.
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.
Requiring Thomas Sowthe to stand before the congregation of Borowgrene on "the xiiijth day of November next comminge" (14 November 1597) and confess "I did mowe on Sunday after evening prayer, in harvest time." Signed "Concordat cum decreto domini Judicis Ita testor Tho[mas] Amy, Notarius publicus."